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Environmental Stewardship and Dignity of Labour in Gen 2:4b-15 and its Challenges for Nigeria Theology and Science (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Michael Paul Pilani
This paper analyses Gen 2:4b–15, emphasizing its relevance to the primary purpose of human creation. The text explains why the earth lacks productivity and plants, attributing it to the absence of ...
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Form and Information in Biology—An Evolutionary Perspective Foundations of Science (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Engin Bermek
In this paper, I adopt the view that the form which is embodied in matter gives it its essence and converts it into substance (Aristotle). I furthermore understand information as the transmissible state of the form. Living beings as substances can create order in their environment adapted to their needs. The environment in turn has the potential to change the form and other causes such as matter,
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Framing Theological Investigations of Near-Future AI Theology and Science (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Mark Graves
Published in Theology and Science (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Synthetic Human Embryos, Embryo Models and Embryo-like Structures in Islam Theology and Science (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-15 Sayyed Mohamed Muhsin, Mohd. Noh Abdul Jalil, Muhammad Ayman Al-Akiti, Fazrihan Duriat, Mohd Faizal Ahmad, Alexis Heng Boon Chin
A major breakthrough in developmental biology is the ex vivo generation of synthetic human embryos from stem cells. A comprehensive, in-depth bioethical analysis from a Sunni Islamic perspective re...
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David Albert Cooper 1949–2018 Historical Records of Australian Science (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Anthony D. Kelleher, Suzanne Crowe, Anthony Cunningham
David Cooper was an internationally renowned immunologist and HIV clinician who spearheaded Australia’s world-leading HIV response. Known for advocacy and community engagement, he made several world-first discoveries on HIV pathogenesis and treatment. He was involved in the development of every HIV drug used in Australia and drove the introduction of antiretroviral pre‐exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in
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Angus McEwan 1937–2018 Historical Records of Australian Science (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Trevor J. McDougall, John A. Church, John Zillman
Dr Angus McEwan FAA FTSE who died on 5 September 2018, aged 81, was a renowned Australian fluid dynamicist, specialising in designing and conducting experimental studies in geophysical fluid dynamics, and providing outstanding leadership of national and international research programs in oceanography and meteorology.
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From internment in Trial Bay to exile in Berkeley: the German physicist Peter Pringsheim and his connection with Australia Historical Records of Australian Science (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 James N. Bade
Peter Pringsheim, best known as professor of physics at the University of Berlin, has an unusual connection with Australia. His attendance at the 1914 conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which was held in Melbourne, coincided with the outbreak of World War 1, and he was interned as an enemy alien at the Trial Bay Internment Camp in New South Wales from October 1914
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Model Organism Databases and Algorithms: A Computing Mechanism for Cross-species Research Foundations of Science (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Sim-Hui Tee
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Defending the quantum reconstruction program European Journal for Philosophy of Science (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Philipp Berghofer
The program of reconstructing quantum theory based on information-theoretic principles enjoys much popularity in the foundations of physics. Surprisingly, this endeavor has only received very little attention in philosophy. Here I argue that this should change. This is because, on the one hand, reconstructions can help us to better understand quantum mechanics, and, on the other hand, reconstructions
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Simpson’s paradox beyond confounding European Journal for Philosophy of Science (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Zili Dong, Weixin Cai, Shimin Zhao
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Science as public service European Journal for Philosophy of Science (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Hannah Hilligardt
The problem this paper addresses is that scientists have to take normatively charged decisions which can have a significant impact on individual members of the public or the public as a whole. And yet mechanisms to exercise democratic control over them are often absent. Given the normative nature of these choices, this is often perceived to be at odds with basic democratic principles. I show that this
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Research environments vis-à-vis biological environments: ontological parallels, epistemic parallax, and metaphilosophical parallelization European Journal for Philosophy of Science (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda
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The Same Tool. Wittgenstein on Theology and Logic Theology and Science (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Michał Stelmach
The paper deals with Wittgenstein’s early philosophy and discusses the issue of the relation between the necessary tools used within logic and theology. I argue that Wittgenstein’s standpoint requi...
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Dysteleology: A Classical Sunni Exegetical Perspective Theology and Science (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Ismail Lala
This study conducts a qualitative analysis of teleological verses in the Qur’an, which reveals that they only demonstrate the power of God to resurrect, and the will of God to punish/ reward as He ...
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Love is Universal: AI, Angels, and Astrobiology at the Ends of Time and Space Theology and Science (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Benjamin B. DeVan
Applying scientific theology to possible existence of astrobiology, aliens, and Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (ETI) invites constructive analysis along at least four lines of inquiry. First are po...
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Astrobiology and Challenges for Traditional Christian Doctrine Theology and Science (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Grace Wolf-Chase
This response to Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine: Exploring the Implications of Life in the Universe raises concerns regarding whether Andrew Davison’s traditional approach to Christian theolog...
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Memories of Philip Hefner Theology and Science (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Ted Peters, Bob Russell
Published in Theology and Science (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Buddhist Ecological Protection of Space: A Guide for Sustainable Off-Earth Travel Theology and Science (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Scott A. Mitchell
Published in Theology and Science (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Bible as a Two-Testament Collection of Writings in Science-Faith Dialogue Theology and Science (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-08 William Horst
Science-faith dialogue would be strengthened by a greater sensitivity to the Bible’s form as a two-testament collection of writings. Science-faith scholarship has often treated concepts from the Bi...
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Creation and Contemplation: The Cosmology of The Qur’an and Its Late Antique Background Theology and Science (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-08 Muhammad Misbah
Published in Theology and Science (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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About the Concept of Molecular Structure Foundations of Science (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Olimpia Lombardi, Giovanni Villani
The concept of molecular structure is one of the most important concepts of chemistry. In fact, molecular structure is closely related to the concept of chemical substance and its set of properties, and it is the main factor in the explanation of reactivity. In fact, much of the behavior of substances is explained in terms of the structure of their component molecules. This may explain why people tend
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A Taxonomy for Set-Theoretic Potentialism Philosophia Mathematica (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Davide Sutto
Set-theoretic potentialism is one of the most lively trends in the philosophy of mathematics. Modal accounts of sets have been developed in two different ways. The first, initiated by Charles Parsons, focuses on sets as objects. The second, dating back to Hilary Putnam and Geoffrey Hellman, investigates set-theoretic structures. The paper identifies two strands of open issues, technical and conceptual
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Dr W.R. (Bill) Blevin 1929–2022 Historical Records of Australian Science (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 B. D. Inglis
William Roderick (Bill) Blevin graduated from the University of New England (UNE) with First Class Honours in science in 1950, completed a Diploma of Education in 1951 and a Master of Science degree in 1952. He joined the CSIRO Division of Physics in 1953 as a research scientist and became the leader of the Optical Radiometry and Pyrometry Group. In 1972, he was awarded a DSc from the University of
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Understanding the Interaction Between the Divergence of Science and the Convergence of Technology Based on Polanyi’s Thoughts on Science Foundations of Science (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-24 Jianzhong Li
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Despotic dominion and union organizing: Law, property, and the historical geography of class struggle in California agribusiness Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Don Mitchell
This paper examines the role of law, particularly law related to private property, in the historical geography of class struggle. At the center of the analysis is the ‘access rule’, written by the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board in 1975 and struck down by the United States Supreme Court in 2021. Responding to the specific geography of California agribusiness labor relations and the long
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Niches and Niche Construction in Biology and Scientific Practice European Journal for Philosophy of Science (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Joseph Rouse
Concepts of an organism’s biological environment and of niche construction as how organisms alter their environment and that of other organisms now play prominent roles in multiple sub-fields of biology, including ecology, evolution, and development. Some philosophers now use these concepts to understand the dynamics of scientific research. Others note divergences among the concepts of niche and niche
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Evidence for Re-attributing to Pierre Gassendi the Authorship of Anatomia ridiculi muris (1651) and Favilla ridiculi muris (1653) Early Science and Medicine (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Rodolfo Garau
From 1643 onwards – almost until the ends of their lives –, the philosopher and astronomer Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) and the mathematician and astrologer Jean-Baptiste Morin (1583–1656) were engaged in a bitter polemic. Scholars in the history of early modern science consider this polemic crucial both for understanding the debate over Galileanism and Copernicanism in France, and for understanding
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Heart, Center of the World, and the Principle of Motion: from Aristotle to Kepler and Galileo Early Science and Medicine (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Miguel Á. Granada
This article examines the transformation of the “heart of the world” concept and its influence on the understanding of what causes planetary motion. It begins with Aristotle’s conception of the sphere of the fixed stars and that of commentators such as Simplicius, Averroes, and Aquinas. The focus then shifts to the notion of a mobile Sun positioned between the upper and lower planets in the geocentric
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Mechanism, vis motiva, and Fermentation: a Reassessment of Borelli’s Physiology Early Science and Medicine (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Antonio Clericuzio, Carmen Schmechel
According to the standard view, Borelli was a strict mechanist who sought to explain organic processes by resorting to invisible mechanisms. This paper aims to show that his outlook on living organisms as contained in De motu animalium was far more nuanced than historians have maintained. Borelli resorted to vis motiva as the source of activity of corpuscles, a notion that was at odds with strict mechanism
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Calibrating the theory of model mediated measurement: metrological extension, dimensional analysis, and high pressure physics European Journal for Philosophy of Science (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-10 Mahmoud Jalloh
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Individualisation and individualised science across disciplinary perspectives European Journal for Philosophy of Science (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-10 Marie I. Kaiser, Anton Killin, Anja-Kristin Abendroth, Mitja D. Back, Bernhard T. Baune, Nicola Bilstein, Yves Breitmoser, Barbara A. Caspers, Jürgen Gadau, Toni I. Gossmann, Sylvia Kaiser, Oliver Krüger, Joachim Kurtz, Diana Lengersdorf, Annette K. F. Malsch, Caroline Müller, John F. Rauthmann, Klaus Reinhold, S. Helene Richter, Christian Stummer, Rose Trappes, Claudia Voelcker-Rehage, Meike J. Wittmann
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Quantum fictivism European Journal for Philosophy of Science (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Vera Matarese
Quantum mechanics is arguably our most successful physical theory, yet the nature of the quantum state still constitutes an ongoing controversy. This paper proposes, articulates, and defends a metaphysical interpretation of the quantum state that is fictionalist in spirit since it regards quantum states as representing a fictional ontology. Such an ontology is therefore not physical, and yet it provides
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Highly idealized models of scientific inquiry as conceptual systems European Journal for Philosophy of Science (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Renne Pesonen
The social epistemology of science has adopted agent-based computer simulations as one of its core methods for investigating the dynamics of scientific inquiry. The epistemic status of these highly idealized models is currently under active debate in which they are often associated either with predictive or the argumentative functions. These two functions roughly correspond to interpreting simulations
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Jeremy David Pickett-Heaps 1940–2021 † Historical Records of Australian Science (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Peter Beech, Arthur Forer
Jeremy Pickett-Heaps was a biologist whose acute observational powers were fed by a deep fascination for how cells work; he had an affinity for the myriad diversity of algae and other protists in general and for what they could teach us about all cells. An early adopter of the electron microscope, he made fundamental discoveries in plant cell division and green algal phylogeny that developed into studies
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Between Understanding and Control: Science as a Cultural Product Foundations of Science (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Flavio Del Santo
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Are Interactive Exhibits at a Science Center Cognitive Artifacts? Foundations of Science (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Marcin Trybulec, Ilona Iłowiecka-Tańska
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Isaiah’s Apocalyptic Myth and the Spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria Theology and Science (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Paulinus O. Agbo, Kingsley I. Uwaegbute, Kingsley Okoye, Cyriacus Oji, Wilson Anowia
We argue that “Isaiah's apocalyptic myth,” (Isaiah 26:20) was a cushioning effort amidst the corona-virus (COVID-19) pandemic in Nigeria between March and May 2020. Informed conversations frame myt...
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A Delicate Balancing Act: Integrative Pluralism and the Pursuit of Unified Theories Foundations of Science (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Marcin Miłkowski
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Between Active Matter and Letters: Kabbalah, Natural Knowledge, and Jewish How-To Books in Early Modern East-Central Europe Early Science and Medicine (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Agata Paluch
This essay focuses on Jewish practical kabbalistic books of recipes that were produced in early modern East-Central Europe. These handwritten sources document the Jewish engagement with practical forms of expertise, which were informed by the theoretical foundations of kabbalistic knowledge. Through two case studies, the article highlights Jewish vernacular ideas about nature and matter, and the techniques
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Form and Matter of Regular Geometrical Bodies in Luca Pacioli’s Summa (1494) and Compendium de divina proportione (1498) Early Science and Medicine (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Giacomo Damiani
Luca Pacioli (ca. 1447–1517) is widely considered a central figure in the Italian Renaissance, particularly in the history of practical mathematics. The perspectival representations of geometrical bodies that Leonardo da Vinci drew for Pacioli’s Compendium de divina proportione are, in turn, often singled out to illustrate the relationships between the visual arts and mathematics in the late fifteenth
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Plato’s Dietetics for Intellectuals in Timaeus 86b–90d Early Science and Medicine (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Hynek Bartoš
In this paper I focus on the dietetic discussion at the end of the Timaeus (86b–90d) and read it against the background of the medical dietetics of its day. I try to show that Plato’s version of dietetics is deeply rooted in the preceding medical tradition and that it draws in particular on ideas attested in the Hippocratic treatises On Regimen and Airs, Waters, Places. On the other hand, I also argue
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Conjuring place: The photo-geographical imagination of Thomas Joshua Cooper Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Joan M. Schwartz
showcases, in exhibition and book form, the work of Thomas Joshua Cooper (b. 1946) and his project to chart photographically the edges and extremities of the Atlantic Basin. Cooper's large black-and-white prints, often abstract and tied tenuously to a specific location by words, are visually arresting and intensely geographical. This essay points to Cooper's work as an imaginative geography that inspires
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Two species of realism European Journal for Philosophy of Science (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Vicente Raja, Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira
Different species of realism have been proposed in the scientific and philosophical literature. Two of these species are direct realism and causal pattern realism. Direct realism is a form of perceptual realism proposed by ecological psychologists within cognitive science. Causal pattern realism has been proposed within the philosophy of model-based science. Both species are able to accommodate some
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A functionalist mixed approach to the ontology of quantum field theories European Journal for Philosophy of Science (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Chunling Yan
The general study of the ontology of quantum field theories (QFTs) concerns whether particles or fields are more fundamental. Both views are well-motivated, although each is subject to some serious criticism. Given that the current versions of the particle interpretation and the field interpretation are not satisfying, I propose a mixed ontology of particles and fields in the framework of QFT. I argue
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Philosophy without natural kinds: a reply to Reydon & Ereshefsky European Journal for Philosophy of Science (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 David Ludwig
The tradition of natural kinds has shaped philosophical debates about scientific classification but has come under growing criticism. Responding to this criticism, Reydon and Ereshefsky present their grounded functionality account as a strategy for updating and defending the tradition of natural kinds. This article argues that grounded functionality does indeed provide a fruitful philosophical approach
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Of homelands and global Blackness, or a trans-Atlantic tale of Caribbean relationalities: A geographic manifesto for change Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Agostinho M.N. Pinnock
This reflection traces my intellectual journey to geography. It focuses on the emergence of Global Black Geographies as a key methodological framework in my PhD research. The article explores its application to my work alongside my move from Jamaica to the United Kingdom. Global Black Geographies, which takes some of its cues from Black Geographies, is a field that powerfully interrogates the multiply
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Many Worlds and Moral Responsibility Theology and Science (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Emily Qureshi-Hurst
Moral responsibility is integral to most forms of theism. Yet its coherence as a concept is contingent upon the fulfilment of certain metaphysical conditions. In this paper I argue that (1) the con...
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Tales of twin cities: what are climate analogues good for? European Journal for Philosophy of Science (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Giovanni Valente, Hernán Bobadilla, Rawad El Skaf, Francesco Nappo
This article provides an epistemological assessment of climate analogue methods, with specific reference to the use of spatial analogues in the study of the future climate of target locations. Our contention is that, due to formal and conceptual inadequacies of geometrical dissimilarity metrics and the loss of relevant information, especially when reasoning from the physical to the socio-economical
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New Mechanistic Explanation: Can It Be Interesting for a Theologian Theology and Science (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Michal Oleksowicz
“Mechanism” is one of the crucial concepts that have deeply influenced the evolution of scientific disciplines and philosophical systems. For the last few decades, this concept has again found itse...
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“Always-Already-Created”: Theology of Creation in the Context of Artificial Intelligence Theology and Science (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Chammah J. Kaunda
This article suggests the idea of everything is “always-already-created” as a metaphysical framework for making sense of and constructing an African Pentecostal theology of creation in the context ...
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Scientific experimental articles are modernist stories European Journal for Philosophy of Science (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Anatolii Kozlov, Michael T. Stuart
This paper attempts to revive the epistemological discussion of scientific articles. What are their epistemic aims, and how are they achieved? We argue that scientific experimental articles are best understood as a particular kind of narrative: i.e., modernist narratives (think: Woolf, Joyce), at least in the sense that they employ many of the same techniques, including colligation and the juxtaposition
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How Does Islamic Law View Current Neutering Practices for Cats and Dogs? Theology and Science (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Syafiq Munir Bin Ismail Munir, Mohd Istajib Bin Mokhtar
Millions of cats and dogs roam the world, and unchecked growth could lead to pet overpopulation. This can strain resources and harm animal welfare. While neutering a common solution, has its debate...
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Conversations in geography: Journeying through four decades of history and philosophy of geography in the United Kingdom Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Heike Jöns, Julian Brigstocke, Mette Bruinsma, Pauline Couper, Federico Ferretti, Franklin Ginn, Emily Hayes, Michiel van Meeteren
This article offers a critical appraisal of institutionalised knowledge production and exchange on the history and philosophy of geography in the United Kingdom. We examine broad epistemic trends over 41 years (1981–2021) through an analysis of annual conference sessions and special events convened by the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society with
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Geography’s relevance debates and new forms of scholar policy activism Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Mark Boyle, Audrey Kobayashi
In the context of class and culture wars over the social purpose of the university, it is time to revisit a pivotal question: to whom is the discipline of geography accountable and for what? In the spirit of looking back to look forward, we wonder to what extent and in what ways historiographies of geography that critically interrogate geographers' statements on the discipline's social mission might
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The Mediterranean metaphor and Léon Metchnikoff's Great Historical Rivers: anarchist geographies of water-land hybridity Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Federico Ferretti
This paper discusses ideas of anarchist (historical) geographies of rivers and seas. It does so by addressing works of early anarchist geographer Lev Ilich Mechnikov (mentioned here with the more known French spelling Léon Metchnikoff) (1838–1888), which lie at the origin of broader ‘Mediterranean metaphors’ comparing the globalising role of oceanic navigation to early Mediterranean connectedness,
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Optimized Skin Lesion Segmentation: Analysing DeepLabV3+ and ASSP Against Generative AI-Based Deep Learning Approach Foundations of Science (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Hassan Masood, Asma Naseer, Mudassir Saeed
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Quantum ontology and intuitions European Journal for Philosophy of Science (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Valia Allori
Among the various proposals for quantum ontology, both wavefunction realists and the primitive ontologists have argued that their approach is to be preferred because it relies on intuitive notions: locality, separability and spatiotemporality. As such, these proposals should be seen as normative frameworks asserting that one should choose the fundamental ontology which preserves these intuitions, even
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Extending a Model Language to Handle Entangled Concepts in Artificial Intelligence Foundations of Science (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Roberto Leporini
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The poetics of geographical knowledge: For a genealogy of geographical aesthetics in history and philosophy of geography Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Julian Brigstocke
This short reflection on forty years of the UK's History and Philosophy of Geography group reflects on the poetics of geographical knowledge. Whilst histories of geography have diverged from philosophies of geography over recent years, the intervention proposes that a useful avenue of enquiry for future work is to develop fuller historical and philosophical accounts of the forms and poetics of geographical